The giant reptiles that flew above the earth until about 65 million years ago could have grown to twice the size originally thought with wingspans of at least 18 meters, a palaeontologist said on Thursday.
That would be roughly five times bigger than an albatross, which ranks among the birds with t...

In the Jurassic era when dinosaurs ruled the earth, a 13-foot monster crocodile nicknamed "Godzilla" might be the king of sea..
Totally unique among marine crocodiles, "it is one of the most evolved members of the crocodilian family and also one of the most bizarre" - Diego Pol,...

Canadian scientists named a new species of ancient marine reptile "Ping Pong Ichthyosaur" for the spot where the prehistoric fossil was stored for 25 years.
"It was pretty amazing to realize this valuable discovery had sat under a Ping Pong table for 25 years. But I suppose that after 100 mil...

A giant dragon capable of killing a rhinoceros is related to the world's largest living lizard, scientists have discovered. The 23ft Megalania prisca, or ancient giant ripper, lived in Australia nearly 20,000 years ago. It was the largest lizard to have stalked the Earth, weighing more than two to...

Australian scientists have identified two new species of ancient marine reptile, similar to the Loch Ness monster, in Scotland, that swam in an Australian outback sea 115 million years ago.
The reptiles, named Umoonasaurus and Opallionectes, belonged to the Plesiosaurs grou...

Reptiles stood upright after mass extinction Reptiles changed their walking posture from sprawling to upright immediately after the end-Permian mass extinction, the biggest crisis in the history of life that occurred some 250 million years ago and wiped out 90% of all species. In a detailed stud...

Dimetrodon (meaning "two measures of teeth") was a predatory synapsid genus that flourished during the Permian period, living between 280-265 million years ago (Artinskian to Capitanian stages). It was more closely related to mammals than to true reptiles such as lizards. It is clas...